Go Green Week 2023 Panel: Why does migrant justice = climate justice?

Join People & Planet for a conversation with Gracie Mae Bradley (writer and abolitionist campaigner) and Dr. Christopher Basaldú (member of the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas and climate justice organiser) about the intersections of climate and migrant justice. This conversation will take us from Texas to UK universities. We will explore why militarised borders and the border industry cannot exist in a livable future where all have the right to stay and the right to move.

We will talk about movement strategy and "where to even start", pressure points for the border industry, and how we can make sure that our organising for climate justice goes beyond borders. This event will have a more informal, conversational tone, and audience questions will be woven in throughout.

Date: Wednesday 15th February 18.30 - 19.30

Location: Zoom (link provided via email)

About the panelists

Dr. Christopher Basaldú is Esto’k Gna, a member of the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas,  lives in Brownsville, Texas, and volunteers with the South Texas Environmental Justice Network. He earned the degree of Arts Baccalaureate from Harvard University in the Study of Religion, the degree of Master of Arts in American Indian Studies from the University of Arizona, and the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology from the University of Arizona. Dr. Basaldú has lived and worked in Japan and various states in the USA, has worked and lived in the Navajo Nation and several other Native reservations, as well as served on the faculties of Native American Studies at the University of North Dakota and the University of Oklahoma. He has participated in several indigenous movements to resist extractivism, against the oil & gas industries, and against the dehumanizing drive of militarization by the white supremacist governments of the United States of America and the State of Texas.  Christopher Basaldú grew up in Brownsville and Corpus Christi, Texas, both coastal cities along the Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf Coast of Texas and of Louisiana are regions where the oil and gas industries are responsible for immense damages.

Gracie Mae Bradley is a writer and campaigner. She has several years' experience working at the grassroots, including as part of Against Borders for Children and the Black Abolitionist Futures reading group, and in NGOs. Her other writings, in addition to Against Borders, include: From Grenfell to Windrush in 'After Grenfell: Violence, Resistance and Response' (2019), and the poem Unlawful Gathering in ‘When This Is Over: Reflections on an Unequal Pandemic’ (Spring 2023).